Tulsa Police Sgt. Shane Tuell tells
The Associated Press that officer Betty Shelby was certified on the use of stun
guns. Police say Shelby fatally shot 40-year-old Terence
Crutcher on Friday while responding
to a report of a stalled vehicle.

Police say Crutcher
did not have a weapon on him or in his SUV.

Shelby’s attorney, Scott Wood, told
the Tulsa World that Shelby opened fire and another officer used a stun gun
when Crutcher’s “left hand goes
through the car window.”

Terence Crutcher
KOTV

But at a press conference Tuesday,
attorneys representing Crutcher’s
family provided an enlarged photo of the police footage that appeared to show
that Crutcher’s window was up at the
time of the shooting.

Attorney Benjamin Crump said it was clear
Crutcher was holding his hands up and that he was not moving in an aggressive
manner. He said police treated him like a suspect, though he wasn’t a suspect
in a crime.

“Yesterday, in America, we witnessed a person who bombed
a building and injured 29 people, in fact, and he wasn’t taken down with lethal
force,” Crump said, referring the the arrest Monday of the man suspected in a
series of explosions in New York and New Jersey. “He wasn’t killed, so why is a unarmed black
man who has not committed a crime, who needed a hand, why does he get bullets in
his lungs?

Family attorney
Melvin Hall said Crutcher posed no threat to the officers.

“To
use lethal excessive force under these circumstances was not warranted and was
not called for,” Hall said.

Police video
from the incident Friday shows Crutcher walking away from the officers and
toward his SUV with his hands up when one officer shocks him with a stun gun
and he falls to the ground. He is then shot and killed.

Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby
Tulsa Police Department via AP

It’s
not clear from the footage what led Betty Shelby, the officer who fired the
fatal shot, to draw her gun or what orders officers gave Crutcher. Wood said
Crutcher was not following the officers’ commands.

Two 911
calls described an SUV that had been abandoned in the middle of the road. One
unidentified caller said the driver was acting strangely, adding, “I think he’s
smoking something.”

David Riggs, an attorney for the Crutcher family, said Tuesday he’s not
sure whether Crutcher was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But he said
the situation was a “textbook case of how not to handle a situation like this.”

“Not
everyone who is under the influence is a threat to us, we can’t treat people
with drug conditions like this, and we need to make that point clear,” Riggs
said.

After
the shooting, Crutcher could be seen lying on the side of the road, blood
pooling around his body, for nearly two minutes before anyone checked on him.
When asked why police did not provide immediate assistance, police spokeswoman Jeanne
MacKenzie said: “I don’t know that we have protocol on how to render aid to
people.”

Local and federal investigations are underway to determine whether criminal
charges are warranted in the shooting or if Crutcher’s civil rights were
violated.

Tulsa police helicopter footage was among several clips showing the shooting of
Crutcher and its aftermath. In that video, a man in the helicopter that arrives
above the scene as Crutcher walks to the vehicle can be heard saying “time for
a Taser.” He then says: “That looks like a bad dude, too. Probably on
something.”

Crutcher’s
twin sister, Tiffany Crutcher, called for charges Monday.

“The
big bad dude was my twin brother. That big bad dude was a father,” she said.
“That big bad dude was a son. That big bad dude was enrolled at Tulsa Community
College, just wanting to make us proud. That big bad dude loved God. That big
bad dude was at church singing with all of his flaws, every week. That big bad
dude, that’s who he was.”

Police
video shows Crutcher walking toward his SUV that is stopped in the middle of
the road. His hands are up and a female officer is following him. As Crutcher
approaches the driver’s side of the SUV, three male officers walk up and
Crutcher appears to lower his hands and place them on the vehicle. The officers
surround him, making it harder to see his actions from the dashboard camera’s
angle.

Crutcher
can be seen dropping to the ground. Someone on the police radio says, “I think
he may have just been Tasered.” One of the officers near Crutcher backs up
slightly.

Then
almost immediately, someone can be heard yelling, “Shots fired!” Crutcher’s
head then drops, leaving him lying out in the street.

After
that, someone on the police radio can be heard saying, “Shots fired. We have
one suspect down.”

Officer
Tyler Turnbough, who is also white, used a stun gun on Crutcher, police said.
Shelby’s attorney, Wood, said Turnbough fired the stun gun at the same time
Shelby opened fire because both perceived a threat.

Shelby’s
mother-in-law said her daughter-in-law is grieving for the victim’s family and
isn’t prejudiced.

Lois Shelby told The Associated Press
in a phone interview Tuesday that Shelby “thought she had to protect her
own life” when she fatally shot Crutcher.

Dozens of protesters have called for
Shelby’s immediate arrest for her role in Crutcher’s
shooting Friday, and at least one other protest is planned Tuesday to call for
charges against her. Shelby has been on paid leave since the shooting.